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“In a climate this uncertain, Shakers gives you a layer of reassurance and confidence. What I like most, without a doubt, is the flexibility and getting to work on top-tier projects.”
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Work as an AWS Engineer on real accounts
Projects where the account is yours: which service holds each piece, what gets defined in code and which permissions close. Shakers connects you with teams already living in AWS and building it blind.
What gets read about the Amazon ecosystem is certification syllabi or exam forums. Neither tells you how to start building on a real company's account project by project, service by service. Here is that.
- Higher-paying projects
- More continuity between projects
- Greater recognition for your experience
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Join ShakersThe decisions an AWS Engineer owns every week
An AWS Engineer builds and operates systems on Amazon Web Services: they choose the right service for each workload (EC2, Lambda, S3), define infrastructure with CloudFormation or Terraform and close permissions with IAM. When the project touches AI, they extend the account with Bedrock: models over the data that already lives there.
You decide which service holds each piece and at what cost, what gets defined in code and what closes with minimal permissions. You also decide what the account does not need: a service stood up for fashion gets switched off with the same cleanliness it was switched on. The account belongs to the company; what gets built inside, to you.
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How Shakers works for talent
Create your profile
Tell us who you are, what you can do, the projects you want to work on and what your availability and rate are.
Get your certification
We certify your experience and your use of AI so companies understand and trust what you bring.
Match with projects
We connect you with well-paid projects that fit your expertise and your preferences.
DevOps and Cloud projects that live up to your expectations
Work on real projects, with teams that need your expertise, without wasting time looking for opportunities.
Projects that fit you
Work with companies that need your stack and experience to take their projects to production.
Opportunities that come to you
Our AI matching connects your profile with the projects that fit your preferences.
You build. Shakers handles the rest
Set your own terms based on your seniority. We manage contracts, payments and paperwork.
What an AWS Engineer delivers on a Shakers project
The brief arrives with the account
Shakers is hiring infrastructure: the project arrives with the AWS account already running and the specific symptom, not with a list of technologies.
Architecture you can audit
You deliver the service map with its cost and risk, and every new decision written as a template, including the one you discarded and why.
What happens when something fails
You set what gets monitored, at what threshold and who responds. Every service with its telemetry before being called done.
Real accounts built
Having built on a company account and being able to tell which service you chose wrong the first time and how you corrected it.
The right service
Choosing by workload and cost, not catalogue. Sometimes the honest answer is a simple instance, and knowing how to defend it.
Where your brief ends
You build and operate inside AWS; the deployment pipeline is DevOps ground. If the project needs it, you say so at kickoff.
Frequently asked questions
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What should you learn to work with AWS?
The catalogue with judgement: EC2, Lambda, S3 and IAM first, then CloudFormation or Terraform to define it in code. Certification looks at real accounts built.
Which tools do you use daily?
The console and the CLI every day, CloudFormation or Terraform to define infrastructure, and Python as the glue. IAM always: the craft nobody sees.
How is it different from the AWS DevOps Engineer?
You build and operate the service architecture; AWS DevOps automates the pipeline deploying on the same cloud. You cross paths on every project.
How much do you earn as a freelance AWS Engineer?
You invoice per project and scope sets the band: which services get built and what operation remains. You agree the budget before accepting.
Is AWS work something you can do remotely?
Almost everything: the account and services live in the cloud. Only the odd hardware deployment asks for presence.
How do you join Shakers as an AWS Engineer?
You create your profile, pass the certification process and enter the collective: only 4 percent make it. Then you choose your Amazon projects.
The daily shape of the craft
The account with more roles than services, the function scaling without control and the bill nobody understands. Fewer certificates accumulated, more architecture that holds itself up.
The cloud with the most demand
6,170 active tech job ads in Spain mention AWS, one in five of the corpus, according to Shakers' market analysis (n=30,508, September 2026). The cloud with the most projects and the most noise: choosing services well is the difference.
How people get here
Two frequent doors: the developer who ended up managing the client's account and the sysadmin who moved the load into the cloud. Both arrive knowing half: choosing well is what's missing.
What this role is not
Not accumulating certifications nor keeping the inherited lights on. If the problem is the pipeline, the role is DevOps; multi-cloud strategy, Cloud Architect.
The roles an AWS project crosses
Four roles from the collective cross your path inside the Amazon account, from the one automating deployment to the one living in the data.
AWS DevOps Engineer
The DevOps cut of the ecosystem: their pipeline deploys what your architecture holds up. The most frequent boundary of your week.
DevOps Engineer
The automation of the software cycle with the three clouds as environments: when the problem is the path, not the account.
Cloud Architect
Decides whether AWS is the cloud and how it is structured: their decisions frame where your account makes sense.
Data Engineer
Kinesis, Glue and the lake: when the AWS part of the project is the data feeding your services.
Boundaries between these roles are agreed per project: the job title doesn't set them.
Take the next step with Shakers
Want accounts built with judgement?
Pass Shakers certification and choose which Amazon projects you take on.
